Event

Poisonings at the Bayway tetraethyl lead works, 1924

Workers at Standard Oil of New Jersey’s tetraethyl lead works in New Jersey fell ill and died from October 1924.

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Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) operator of the works Scholarship & press 1 2
Bayway refinery, New Jersey place where, in Al Jazeera’s background, dozens were hospitalised and five died Scholarship & press 3

Surgeon General’s conference on tetraethyl lead, 1925 According to U.S. Public Health Service Primary record 4
The Public Health Service’s own introduction ties the conference to public fears sharpened by these poisonings.

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The Secret History of Lead (Jamie Lincoln Kitman, The Nation, March 2000), The Nation, 20 Mar 2000. Scholarship & press
On October 26, 1924, the first of five workers who would die in quick succession at Standard Oil’s Bayway TEL works perished
Statement to the Committee of Enquiry on Lead Ethyl Petrol, by Graham Edgar, Director of Research, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (addendum of March 1928), Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (copy via ToxicDocs), 1928. Self-published
a number of cases of poisoning and five fatalities
UN hails milestone as use of leaded petrol ended globally, Al Jazeera (news agencies), reporting a UNEP statement, 30 Aug 2021. Scholarship & press
Concerns were raised in 1924, when dozens of workers were hospitalised and five declared dead after suffering convulsions at a refinery run by US giant Standard Oil
The Use of Tetraethyl Lead Gasoline in Its Relation to Public Health (Public Health Bulletin No. 163), U.S. Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1926. Primary record
these fears were intensified when fatal poisoning occurred in the manufacture and mixing of the concentrated tetraethyl lead itself in Deepwater, N. J., Dayton, Ohio, and Bayway, N. J.
fatal poisoning occurred in the manufacture and mixing of the concentrated tetraethyl lead itself in Deepwater, N. J., Dayton, Ohio, and Bayway, N. J.

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